Pouch

2003-78-31

From: Tunisia

Curatorial Section: African

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Object Number 2003-78-31
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Tunisia
Section African
Materials Leather | Silk | Thread
Technique Tanned | Sewn | Appliqued | Embroidered | Tooled
Description

A flat tan leather pouch consisting of a single piece folded twice and laced with leather to form the body of the pouch and large flap which ends in a point; the interior of the pouch is divided in half by a single piece of leather folded to form a smaller interior flap, the end of which is cut into a double ogee design; outer flap is decorated with incised parallel lines and a curvilinear applique of leather and silk embroidered threads (red, blue, green, and yellow); the interior face is decorated with incised crossing lines and curvilinear appliques of leather and silk threads in lower right and left hand corners; the back is decorated with simple incised crossing lines; a broad strap is attached to the upper right and left hand corners; the outer flap fastens to the bottom front of the pouch with a leather loop and fastener.

Length 24
Width 25
Credit Line Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003
Other Number 1895.1.130 - Other Number | 3024 - Other Number

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